Software Engineering Staff Software Engineer I - Confluent Professional Hursley,GB

Your role and responsibilities We are looking for a staff level technical leader to help us build the next-generation network data plane, enabling Confluent Cloud to achieve 10x the current scale. This is a hybrid engineering role, blending deep software development expertise with hands-on operational excellence. Cloud networking is a strategic investment area with significant potential to impact the company's growth. The Traffic team is responsible for the network platform of Confluent Cloud, focusing on performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for all customer traffic that ingresses and egresses Kafka and DSP deployments, as well as all internal service-to-service traffic on Confluent Cloud. You will architect, design and lead cross-team initiatives to deliver highly scalable, cost-efficient networking data plane solutions, while ensuring these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production. You'll work across engineering, security, product, and platform orgs to build the blocks that empower product teams to integrate networking seamlessly. What You Will Do

• Design, develop, and operationalize high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient systems for the Confluent Cloud network data plane platform.
• Independently drive the execution of ambiguously scoped cross-team software projects, ensuring delivery of complex projects in production with a focus on quality.
• Leverage cloud providers to deliver impactful business solutions.
• Troubleshoot and improve operations for a complex technical stack that spans across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including microservices, containers, and virtualization.
Required education None Preferred education None Required technical and professional expertise
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Extensive experience in the software engineering industry.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• Experience in building and operating large-scale systems.
• Solid understanding of networking primitives and protocols.
• Self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams.
• Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other programming languages.
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with network proxies and/or load balancers.
• Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Other relevant job details Job Title: Staff Software Engineer-Confluent Job ID: 122177 City / Township / Village: Hursley State / Province: Hampshire Country: United Kingdom Work arrangement: Remote Area of work: Software Engineering Employment type: Regular Position type: Professional Some travel may be required based on business demand Company: (8660) IBM United Kingdom Limited Shift: On Call IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Extensive experience in the software engineering industry.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• Experience in building and operating large-scale systems.
• Solid understanding of networking primitives and protocols.
• Self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams.
• Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other programming languages.
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with network proxies and/or load balancers.
• Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP).